Addiction treatment, bare-bones style Charging high fees without guaranteeing access to evidence-based care is common in the addiction treatment industry Salon · Feb 1, 2023
They openly ripped off Medicare Health plans will be allowed to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges for audits before 2018 Salon · Feb 1, 2023
A baby spent 36 days in an in-network NICU. Why did the hospital next door send a bill? Brenna Kearney was seven months pregnant in December 2019 when she experienced what she thought were bad flu symptoms. Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2023
Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest As the U.S. government debates whether to require higher staffing levels at nursing homes, financial records show some owners routinely push profits to sister companies while residents are neglected. WEKU · Jan 31, 2023
Chicago mom fought Lurie Children’s Hospital for 3 years to get overbilling for newborn reversed Illinois law bars insurers from charging out-of-network rates for neonatal care at in-network hospitals. But that didn’t keep it from happening to Brenna Kearney and her husband Casey Trumble. Only a reporter’s questions got things fixed. Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 31, 2023
A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. Why did her parents get a huge bill? A family had more than $12,000 in medical bills they couldn't explain after their baby was delivered early. It turns out the doctors who cared for her worked at a different, out-of-network hospital. WEKU · Jan 30, 2023
Did your health plan rip off Medicare? Previously secret government audits reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans Salon · Jan 29, 2023
Our system is failing foster children The failures of insurers in providing for foster children are widespread and occur largely without public scrutiny Salon · Jan 27, 2023
Staffing crunches in nursing homes Nursing home closures largely stem from a shortage of workers, including nurses and nursing assistants Salon · Jan 27, 2023
When gun violence ends young lives, these men prepare the graves Just outside St. Louis, a cemetery for children sits on a hill. A wooden, weather-worn sign welcomes mourners to "Baby Land." The gravediggers who made the special spot work quietly in the shadows. WEKU · Jan 27, 2023
Doctors and patients are sold on telehealth. Congress is still unsure about its long-term future A recent $1.7 trillion spending package included a funding extension for remote medicine—through 2024. Fortune · Jan 27, 2023
In Decatur, it’s taking more than Buffett family $30 million to make addiction-treatment center work DECATUR — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction-treatment facility, how would you do it? Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 26, 2023
Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years. Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2023
Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children One night last month, a 9-year-old boy who had autism and talked about killing himself was among about 70 foster care children and youth under state supervision sleeping in hotels across Georgia. Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2023
Salon · Jan 26, 2023 Latino teens provide education on covid California high schoolers are playing an important role in encouraging those in their community to get vaccinated
Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2023 NFL has been slow to embrace mental health support for players When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field in the middle of the “Monday Night Football” game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2, Carrie Hastings, half a continent away, understood what she needed to do — and right away.
Salon · Jan 24, 2023 Abortion debate ramps up in states In a post-Roe world, anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and more restrictions
Tribune News Service · Jan 23, 2023 Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first full legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Salon · Jan 23, 2023 NFL hesitant on mental health support The league is working its way toward accessible mental health support for its players, coaches, and staff
Tribune News Service · Jan 22, 2023 A $30 million gift to build an addiction treatment center. Then staffers had to run it DECATUR, Ill. — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction treatment facility, how would you do it?
Salon · Jan 20, 2023 UC Health's ties to religious hospitals UC's health system is renewing contracts with hundreds of outside clinics — many with religious affiliations
Salon · Jan 19, 2023 Seniors benefit from remote fitness boom Virtual classes offer opportunities for supervised physical activity that were rare before the pandemic
Salon · Jan 18, 2023 Drugmakers sued over insulin prices California's Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the six major companies that dominate the U.S. insulin market
Salon · Jan 18, 2023 Pregnancy-related nausea undertreated Often, the condition is misunderstood or downplayed by doctors or the patients themselves
Salon · Jan 17, 2023 Health care investors convene in SF Health care’s business class returned to San Francisco last week for JPMorgan’s annual health care confab